Job 7:15-16

Christian Standard Bible

¹⁵so that I prefer strangling^[a]—
death rather than life in this body.^[b]^(A)
¹⁶I give up! I will not live forever.
Leave me alone,^(B) for my days are a breath.^[c]

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Footnotes

7:15 Or suffocation
7:15 Lit than my bones
7:16 Or are futile

Ecclesiastes 7:1

Christian Standard Bible

Wise Sayings

7 A good name is better than fine perfume,^(A)
and the day of one’s death is better than the day of one’s birth.^(B)

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Ecclesiastes 7:1 in all English translations

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